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Berlin in color, after the Reich's fall; Nikolai Kolchitski; Medicare for All (Congressjerks); Swedish covid death rates soar above neighbors'; Financial services workers dying for junk mail; AMC: "We will never show another Universal movie"; Revived Haunted Mansion videos from early internet fandom; Marc Laidlaw reads his fiction; A Room of One’s Own
Pluralistic: 30 Apr 2020 day-and-date
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Today's links
- Berlin in color, after the Reich's fall: So vivid you could reach out and touch it.
- Nikolai Kolchitski: He defined the Soviet look of space exploration for a generation.
- Medicare for All (Congressjerks): Congress is happy to fund its exclusive white-glove concierge medical system.
- Swedish covid death rates soar above neighbors': "Do nothing" is not doing something.
- Financial services workers dying for junk mail: Broadridge workers denied PPE, sick leave.
- AMC: "We will never show another Universal movie": Watch the monopolies form in realtime.
- Revived Haunted Mansion videos from early internet fandom: The squees of yesteryear.
- Marc Laidlaw reads his fiction: A new Youtube series from the author of Dad's Nuke and Half-Life.
- A Room of One’s Own: New pandemic sf from Tochi Onyebuchi, with a live seminar to follow.
- This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, current reading